- AirFrance/KLM to Strengthen Operations in Nigeria
AirFrance/KLM says despite the worldwide economic challenges, it will continue to improve on its products and services in the Nigeria in 2017 and beyond.
The General Manager, AirFrance /KLM, Jean-Raoul Tauzin, at a recent customers’ forum, said the airline would increase its capacity of products and services.
He said, “KLM received a 787 last year. We received this last December. We will receive the next one in April and another in May and next in November. So at the end of the year, we will have more aircraft. Due to the current economic challenges in the country, we can understand that it is difficult, especially with the foreign exchange challenges.
“As soon as we see the start of a change in the current situation, we will be able to reinvest in terms of fleet and the aircraft is one of the latest in the fleet; it will be deployed in the route.”
He said the business environment had been difficult for airlines but that AirFrance/KLM had been close to its customers through communication.
The Commercial Director, Nigeria and Ghana, Air France/KLM, Arthur Dieffenthaler, said the company was celebrating the past and looked forward to building better relationships.
“We are looking back at 2016 and celebrating business relationships with our customers. It has been a challenging year but more than ever, it has been a year we connected with many customers. For Airfrace/KLM, it has been a very exciting year because we changed quite a lot of things.
“We celebrated together with the premiere of a movie in a plane, which has never happened before. So, we showed to the rest of the world that irrespective of what happened, Nigeria, together with AirFrance/KLM, has been able to do remarkable things. I am looking up to 2017 with great confidence and I am sure that we will continue celebrating innovation and new things in Nigeria. Knowing how Nigeria works by now, there will be ways Nigeria will find its way back in a positive side of development.”